Kunstler is pretty cool, nice to see his stuff posted here.

As someone else said, though, a lot of this sounds like LARP. I'm hoping Kunstler is right - and he is generally a bright, accurate, and sane guy - but I do think he's overestimating Trump here. Yes, Trump is smart, and not a quitter...but he's also not perfect, has his negative qualities, and can get outplayed. Occam's Razor says Trump got outplayed, and some of his negative attributes is that he's a sore loser, and sometimes misses some things. Personally, I suspect Trump is floundering and raging quite a bit. I hope I'm wrong, and Trump has this handled and is in the process of pulling off some of the most stellar 4D chess ever seen, but we just have to wait and see at this point.